Difference between Glow and Shine

What is the difference between Glow and Shine?

Glow as a verb is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. while Shine as a verb is to emit light.

Glow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. To radiate some emotional quality like light. To gaze especially passionately at something. To radiate thermal heat. To shine brightly and steadily. To sweat

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state of a glowing object. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

Shine

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To emit light.To reflect light.To distinguish oneself; to excel.To be immediately apparent.To polish (something).To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one's clothing.To create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Brightness from a source of light.Brightness from reflected light.Excellence in quality or appearance.Shoeshine.Sunshine.Moonshine.The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.

We hope you now know whether to use Glow or Shine in your sentence.

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